23:53 - Sunny PagliaccioNote to self: Do NOT open links on max volume in the middle of a quiet night. Otherwise, not bad. :D

23:52 - ApothecaryFast food workers planning a strike in support of $15/hour wages next month. I'm a tutor in a reading lab at a college and I don't even make that much, a bit of an overestimation of one's importance, don'tcha think?

01. Enclosure No. 702. Zero03. The Chains Of Life04. Trail Of Lies05. Reduced To A Beast06. Enlightened By Shadows07. Interlude08. The Might Of Repression09. Walls10. Two Souls Marked By Sorrow+ The Chains Of Life [video][Live at Celtic Rock Festival 2009]+ Once Called For Redemption [video][Live at Celtic Rock Festival 2009]

The best-fitting genre description for the German sextet Darkness Ablaze would probably have to be 'melodic extreme metal'. While the tag seems kind of counterproductive, I can't seem to think of a better one for a band that hasn't quite decided which is most fun to play out of extreme power metal, 'gothenburg', melodic black metal, pagan and modern thrash metal. Extreme power metal seems to have taken the lead so far though.